<p>That’s why you should work extremely hard. To become the most outstanding student that your college has ever seen. To be better than all of your classmates combined. To be adored by your professors and whatnot. To improve your chances for transfer/grad.</p>
<p>I totally agree with Lebron. It sounds like you’re throwing yourself a pity party and you’ve invited everyone on CC (and, no doubt, those around you). What’s the point of pursuing thw waitlist? Because if they do take anyone, they’ll take the students who express an active interest in attending their school, not the students who say, “What’s the point” and don’t even give it a try. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.</p>
<p>Keep thinking positive. It’ll make the wait a little better. You could always transfer or do something productive with a gap year.</p>
<p>So how many asians will become the laughingstocks of their families this admissions season?..</p>
<p>say W T Foock.</p>
<p>maybe i should apply to oxford… when is it all due? ha</p>
<p>OP I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND what you are talking about. But I would say that you are underestimating Texas A&M, it really is an amazing school. The admission requirements are lax but the education you will recieve there will be phenomenal. You should be patting yourself on the back there are many people for whom A&M was thier top choice and they did not get in. You worked incredibly hard, and are incredbily smart and you know you will be successful. </p>
<p>This feeling will pass, once you step foot on campus you will forget about those top schools and realize how lucky you are. I have been to A&M several times and they have a nice campus (lacking in black people :P) but still nice nevertheless. </p>
<p>I will be the first to say CONGRATS!!! A&M is NOT something you should look down on, and since you are probably more towards the top of the class your opportunities for research and the like are going to be even better. Trust you will probably stand out in classes and be VERY successful.</p>
<p>You are asian so I am going to assume that you want to be a doctor (forgive me for it LOL :)) But A&M is a great place for pre-med with a med school that you can potentially research at. And if you are not into medicine then probably engineering (again forgive the sterotype, but I have SO many asian friends and well ya know), we BOTH KNOW that A&M is the ***** when it comes to engineering.</p>
<p>YOU NEED TO STOP COMPLAINING. You know you got into a great school and will have a great next four years, my advice CHILL OUT skip some quizess and tests. And just live and enjoy the rest of your high school days.</p>
<p>And on the bright side only a few more weeks until we graduate! WOOT!</p>
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<p>Umm you people should go somewhere else. You are not the OP and he does not need some sermon about how he is throwing himself a pity party. The OP worked hard and it did not pay off for him, I know what it is like. It’s bad, but so is life. The OP will get over it and he does not need someone commenting on how he is having a pity party.</p>
<p>I think you are not realizing that you can be successful no matter where you go to college. Bloom where you are planted. You also might be surprised how many people at the “local state college” are plenty smart and hard working. They make the most of their opportunity and know their education is their responsibility.</p>
<p>Top schools take kids who have already reached their potential. State schools often enable kids to develop their potential. So much of college is what you are willing to put into it.</p>
<p>Do you not think you can’t find challenging courses, interesting professors, stimulating research and ideas in a state university? If so, you are mistaken. Seek and you will find.</p>
<p>At least you didn’t get into your top schools but couldn’t afford to go. Then you KNOW you worked hard enough and did everything you could, but Fate has really decided to screw you over.</p>
<p>Fate didn’t screw with you. You bought into a false notion that just because “you worked hard enough and did everything you could” it should afford you the right to go to any school you got into even if you knew when applying you couldn’t afford to pay full price to go there. Lot’s of people work hard and do everything they can but can’t live in mansions, drive luxury cars or go to private schools. If your smart enough to get into top schools you should have been smart enough to do the math. There are few free rides in life no matter how hard one works.</p>
<p>Either that, or I made the insane assumption that the Financial Aid offices actually meant what they said on their websites.</p>
<p>It would seem to me that if the OP believes that her incoming classmates are underperformers, then it should be a cakewalk for the OP to become Val (including achieving academic “letters” with that status), collect outstanding letters of rec, and either transfer into a reach or go to a reach graduate school. An awful lot of state-school graduates (from various states) end up at Ivies for grad, for example.</p>
<p>However, I don’t think bitterness will be an aid in that effort.</p>
<p>(Just saying…)</p>
<p>“Dbate: You should be patting yourself on the back there are many people for whom A&M was thier top choice and they did not get in.”</p>
<p>The question is being somewhere that’s a good fit - A&M might be a good fit for some people, but not the OP.</p>
<p>BTW, I didn’t get into Rice either :(</p>
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<p>Think about what you said here. You yourself admit, and I agree, that you applied to almost ENTIRELY reach schools. Your SATs were low for them. They were reach schools - some of them quite a bit so. And you didn’t get in. </p>
<p>Does that mean that you shouldn’t have worked hard? No. That means that you should have applied to at least a few more schools that were closer matches to your stats. There are some <em>great</em> schools that match your stats. The fault isn’t in the work you did in high school. The fault is in the list of colleges you picked. </p>
<p>Is this discouraging? Of course it is. It sucks. It’s okay to feel bad about what’s happened. But should you let these schools which didn’t accept you define your life? No. </p>
<p>Texas A&M College Station is a strong engineering school, if you’re still interested in engineering. I consider it to be ranked in the top 20 engineering schools in the US. If you don’t think it’s a fit for your personally, that’s one thing. But don’t assume it’s a bad school. It’s really quite good.</p>
<p>Texas A&M may seem to be easy to get into, but no engineering program on the planet is easy to graduate from! Many, many, many of those kids you don’t think belong in the same classroom with you are going to flunk out, or drop out, or change majors. Some of them are going to finally hit their stride in college and will get grades as good as, or better than yours.</p>
<p>If you indeed do know how to work hard in school, your chances of finishing your degree in a reasonable amount of time are pretty good. </p>
<p>And, encourage your friends to develop more affection for their safety schools than you did for A&M. Every single year lots of students end up at their safety schools for any number of reasons. It is better if you can like it at least a little bit, than to imagine that it is completely beneath you.</p>
<p>you probably got merit aid. Not everyone gets that.</p>
<p>don’t complain.
you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be who you want to be.
if you keep being miserable then you’re going to ruin your chance of going somewhere.
anyways you really ought to suck it up and hug very tightly onto that acceptance letter and do better than you would have at any other school you didn’t get into, prove them wrong.</p>
<p>oh and there’s my theory on the point on trying in life.
the point of trying in life is to find out if there is a point.
and when you die it’s either very satisfying (in which case there is a point)
or it’s not satisfying, at which point it wouldn’t even matter.
because you’re dead.</p>